Gavin Jackson
Gavin Jackson graduated with a visual journalism degree from Kent State University in 2008 and has been in the news industry ever since. He has worked at newspapers in Ohio, Louisiana and most recently in South Carolina at the Florence Morning News and Charleston Post and Courier.
Gavin's career as a multi-faceted journalist began in 2011 at the Morning News where he wrote, shot photos and video for daily stories in print, online and broadcast. His local political coverage got him hired onto The Post and Courier’s Statehouse bureau team in fall 2015. He covered the presidential primaries, Gov. Nikki Haley, the legislature and more. South Carolina ETV hired him in 2017 as their only news and public affairs reporter in an effort to grow SCETV’s news presence.
Gavin hosts SCETV’s weekly public affairs show This Week in South Carolina and the weekly South Carolina Lede podcast.
Stories
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How Do You Spell Relief? Comirnaty!
August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 — Comments from the state Congressional delegation on the $1.2 trillion Senate infrastructure bill, earmarks, and Afghanistan; the latest data from DHEC on climbing COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations; Pfizer's vaccine gets full approval from the FDA; and... -
Claudia Smith Brinson's 'Stories of Struggle'
August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 — Journalist Claudia Smith Brinson joins us to discuss the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in the Palmetto State. In her book 'Stories of Struggles: The Clash Over Civil Rights in South Carolina' (2020, USC Press), Brinson details the lynchings... -
Stephen Lowe's 'The Slow Undoing'
August 14, 2021August 14, 2021 — We're joined by Stephen Lowe, professor of History and director of Liberal Studies and Organizational Leadership at University of South Carolina Union and Palmetto College. Lowe's book 'The Slow Undoing: The Federal Courts and the Long Struggle for Civil... -
Christina Rae Butler's 'Lowcountry at High Tide'
August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 — We're joined by Christina Rae Butler, professor of Historic Preservation at the American College of the Buildings Arts and College of Charleston and owner of Butler Preservation, L.C. In her book Lowcountry at High Tide: A History of Flooding, Drainage, and... -
Eric Sean Crawford's 'Gullah Spirituals'
August 07, 2021August 7, 2021 — We speak with musicologist Eric Sean Crawford, director of the The Joyner Institute at Coastal Carolina University. Crawford's new book Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands (2021, University of South Carolina... -
Covid Economic Whiplash
July 31, 2021July 31, 2021 — Joey von Nessen, research economist with the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business, joins us w what the Palmetto State's economy is facing during the pandemic.